As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.
While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...
My Proxmox backups stopped being fragile once I added a dedicated PBS node ...
In this podcast, we look at snapshots and their role in data protection strategy with Shawn Meyers, field chief technology officer (CTO) at Tintri. Meyers also talks about the limitations of snapshots ...
Recent kernel development efforts are helping address that problem by improving metadata handling, reducing lock contention, ...
Snapshots are virtual copies that can rapidly recover data but depending on the approach can have very different performance characteristics. Snapshots are a very popular way to create virtual copies ...